Ajahn Chah Quotes

To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.

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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
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• Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

  

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• We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.

  

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• I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

  

  Zola Jesus
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• When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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• I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.

  

  Beck
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• The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Life
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• The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Long
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• A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
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• My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Good
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• I don't pretend that I can imagine myself as a Palestinian.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Myself
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• How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?

  

  Adam Driver
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• Love her? You're devoid of all feeling. You lack common decency. You know how to express yourself. You always have just the right words. There's just one thing you haven't the slightest clue about: life itself. You're a craven coward, but a genius at evasions and excuses.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
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• Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
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• Whenever I have a few hours to dive into a book, I am happy.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
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• And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
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  • Parents

• Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the reader wants to take the message directly on the chin.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Giving
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• I remember I was walking through a store, and I saw clothes a 25-year-old would wear. And the conversation in my head was, 'I'm not young and fabulous anymore.' But, immediately, there was a voice that said, 'No, you can be older and fabulous.' In other words, still just as fabulous, but in a different way.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Different
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• That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.

  

  William James
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Mean

• To this day I have never troubled about the ethics of the matter. The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Nature
  • Study
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• To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Mean
  • Practice
  • Oneself